Javed Nasir

Javed Nasir was born in Lahore, Punjab in British India on 22 December 1936, and was Punjabi Kashmiri. His father was a school headmaster. After his intermediate from Government College, Lahore, where he was part of the college cricket team, Nasir joined the Pakistan Army and entered in the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul in 1956, where he excelled in science subjects and written English. In 1980s, he was sent to attend the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad, and graduated with MSc in Strategic studies. == Military career ==

Commission and early service (1958–1964) He was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers in 1958 and commanded a sapper platoon. Between 1958 and 1959 he was attached to the Frontier Force Regiment as an infantry officer, serving as Company 2 i/c and staff officer-communications of an infantry battalion. He was attached to the East Pakistan Rifles as a company commander between 1959 and 1962. Thereafter he commanded a pioneer company attached to the Independent Engineering Brigade, Force Command Northern Areas Gilgit between 1962 and 1964. Instructional and staff roles (1964–1971) Promoted to major in 1964, he was posted as an instructor at the Engineering Corps Recruit & Training Depot Risalpur. He was known to have served in the combat engineering formations during the second war with India in 1965 as army captain. Senior military appointments (1985–1992) In the military circles, Maj-Gen. Nasir was described as a "moderate person" who, after experimenting a "libertine lifestyle" in his younger years, Against the United States, German and French military estimation, Maj-Gen. Nasir personally led his formation at the ground to clear out the entire storage containing the chemical and explosive materials, as well as the missile ordnance in mere two weeks. On 4 February 1992, Lieutenant-General Nasir was then posted as the chairman of the Pakistan Ordnance Factories at Wah in Punjab, Pakistan, until being appointed the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). ==Director of ISI (1992–1993)==

On 14 March 1992, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt-Gen Nasir as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) against the recommendations and wishes of General Asif Nawaz, then-chief of army staff (COAS). The appointment was seen as a political motive for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif since General Nasir had no experience in the intelligence gathering network and was virtually a ghost in country's intelligence community. At that time, Prime Minister Sharif had family relations with Lt-Gen. Nasir Javed, and knew him very well. Though, he did help the US to relocate and retrieve the missing guided missiles from Afghanistan based on a mutual understanding of such weapons may have fallen into wrong hands. It was during this time when ISI had been running an intensified support of insurgency in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. In spite of his seniority in the military, Nasir was overlooked, and was never considered for the promotion of the four-star rank and appointment by the government during the appointment process for the command of the Army, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS). While airlifting sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles to Bosnian state forces, he pushed the Government of Pakistan to allow the Bosnian immigration to Pakistan. In 2011, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia demanded the custody of the former ISI director for his alleged support of the Inter-Services Intelligence activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to state forces of Bosnia against the Yugoslav forces and Serbian rebels in the 1990s, the Government of Pakistan refused to hand Nasir to the UN tribunal, citing poor health. Removal from the ISI The Chairman joint chiefs General Shamim Alam had completely lost the control of the ISI when the agency was running under Nasir's command. General Abdul Waheed Kakar, the army chief at that time, had been at odds with Lt-Gen. Nasir due to his preaching of Islamic tradition in the military. During this time, the Indian government led by Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao levelled several accusations against him of supporting the Khalistan movement, the Indian Mafia and Dawood Ibrahim– the accusations he swiftly denied in 2008. Following the removal of Prime Minister Sharif, the caretaker Prime Minister Balakh Sher Mazari fired and sacked Nasir from the directorship of the ISI, and President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan approved his premature retirement from his military commission effective from on 13 May 1993 Upon Nasir's dismissal, the new DG ISI, J.A. Qazi eventually led the massive arrests of thousands of Arab Afghans and forced the al-Qaeda to relocate itself in Afghanistan permanently. After expulsion from Pakistan, many escaped to Bosnia to participate in the war. ==Later life==

After his premature retirement, Nasir became a missionary for a Tablighi Jamaat, and went to the private sector where he managed and chaired the private equity firm and hedge fund, the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB), when he was appointed on 14 July 1997 for a two-year contract. In 1998, he was appointed chairman of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (PSGPC), an organisation promoting the well-being of Sikhs in Pakistan as well as pilgrimages from abroad. Through effective management of Trust properties, he generated Rs 1.17 billion in revenue in a single year, exceeding the combined total of all his predecessors. Recognizing the misallocation of diaspora donations that were previously diverted to India via the Indian Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), Nasir invoked a Sikh religious injunction that mandated donations remain with the intended Gurdwara. This reform redirected significant funds to Pakistani shrines. Under his leadership, several Sikh Gurdwaras in Pakistan, which had long suffered from neglect and decay, received restoration. Notably, the initial structure of Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, abandoned since its foundation in 1947, was constructed during his tenure. The Sikh community widely recognized and appreciated his contributions to preserving their religious heritage. In 2002–03, Nasir filed a lawsuit at the Anti Terrorism Court against the media corporations: the Daily Jang, and the News International, for character defamation when investigative articles published on him regarding monetary embezzlement when he managed the private hedge fund in Lahore. In 2007, he appeared on the Geo News and denied any allegations of terror-supporting that was levelled on him during his time as Director ISI, when interviewed by Iftikhar Ahmad. In 2013, Nasir reportedly spoke against Afghan Taliban and the terrorism at the Supreme Court convention, and criticised the Taliban as an armed violent group and criticised their supporting the violent terrorism for their cause, in a response to the church bombing. ==Awards and decorations==